Car-door.



E. J. LEE.

GAR DOOR.

APPLIOATION 21mm APR.17. 1913.

1,092,654. Patented Apr. 7, 1914.

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CAB-1360B.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 1'7, 1913.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELEsnUs J. Lnn, citizen of the United States,residing at Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State ofIowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Doors, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to freight car doors, and consists in the peculiarand advantageous construction hereinafter described and definitelyclaimed.

'In the accompanying. drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevationillustrating my novel door as fully closed and fastened. Fig. 2 showsthe door as opened. Fig. 3 is a broken view showing the door as fastenedin open position. Fig; 4 is a vertical section showing the position ofthe links between the hangers and the door when the door is closed. Fig.5 is a similar view with the door open. Fig. 6 is a view showing theposition of the operating shaft when the door is closed. Fig. 7 is asimilar view showing the position of the operating shaft when the dooris open. Fig. 8 is a plan of the fastener-keeper at the left of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all ofthe views of the drawings.

Fixed to the side of the car body above the door-opening 1 is ahorizontal rail 2 having a depending flange 8, and also fixed to theside of the car body is a strip 4 of iron, steel or other suitablematerial. The said strip 4 is interposed between the car body and therail 2 and depends below the top wall of the door opening as shown, foran important purposehereinafter set forth. Mounted and movable on therail 4 are the wheels 5 of two hangers 6, and the wheel 7 of a hanger 8;the hanger 8 being located midway between the hangers 6 as appears inFig. 1. Each of the said hangers is pro vided with an upwardly extendinglip 9 which rests at the inner side of the flange 3 on rail 2. andserves to prevent displacement of the hanger from the rail. Pivoted tothe hangers 6 and brackets 10 on the door 11 are links 12, and hence thedoor can be swung laterally from the position shown in Fig. 4 to thatshown in Fig. 5, and vice 16 and 17 are fastener-keepers fixed to thecar body below the door opening 1, and 1.8 and 19 are fastener-keepersfixed to the side of the body at the right of the door opening. Asappears in Fig. 8, the keeper 16 is provided at one side of itsfastenerreceiving compartment 20 with a smaller compartment 21. -Thislatter is designed to receive the lower end of a bar when it isnecessary to use a bar to force the door into its closedposition'between the door posts and flush with the side of the car body.

22 is a stop fixed to the side of the car body at the opposite side ofthe door, with reference to the stop 13.

23 is a staple fixed to the side of the car body below the door opening.

24 is the upper section of the operating shaft.

25 is the lower section of said shaft.

26 is the operating lever and 27 and 28 are strap guides in which theupper shaft section is arranged and movable.

As best shown in Fig. 7 the upper section 24 of the operating shaft isprovided at its upper end with a crank 29, and this latter is journaledin and connected to the hanger 8. The lower section 25 of the operatingshaft is journaled in and connected to a bracket 30 fixed on the door11. As appears in Figs. 1 and 2, the operating lever 26 is provided witha T-head, and the ends of the said T- head are pivotally connected tothe adjacent ends of the shaft sections 24 and 25. It will also beobserved that the lever 26 is slotted at 31 to receive the staple 23,and is equipped with a fastener 32 for engaging said staple; and it willfurther be noted that the lever 26 is slotted at 33 in order that it canbe fastened over the staple 34 on the door after the door is opened.

The door is shown in Figs. 1, 4 and 6 as closed, and to open it thefasteners 14 are first raised from the keepers 16 and 17. Then theoperating lever 26 is released, whereupon the lower edge of the doorwill swing or can be pulled outwardly. The operating lever 26 is thenmoved toward the right and upwardly to a horizontal position, whereuponthe door will drop to a slight extent. The operating lever 26 is thenthrown through a half circle toward the left to correspondingly turn theoperating shaft. This drops the door to the full extent, and moves theupper edge of the door outwardly so as to enable the door to clear theside of the car,

and the door is then ready to be moved edgewise to its open positionagainstthe stop 13 in which position it can be secured by dropping thefasteners 14 in the keepers 18 and with the side of the car body, and'istherefore not liable to be raked off or otherwise displaced. It willalso be noted that the closed door being interposed between the doorposts cannot slide back and forth and break the fastener or any of itsother appurtenances. It will further be noted that the closed door issecured at the top by the depending strip 4 which serves both to holdthe door and to shed water. From this it follows that the door would notbe lost even were the hangers knocked from the same. The lower edge ofthe door being free when 'unfastened, said edge canswing outwardly.

Hence the bulging of the side wall of the car or the door posts will notinterfere with the opening or closing of the door, which is an importantdesideratum.

Having described my invention, what I Copies of this patent may beobtained for the hangers and the door, a third hanger movable on therail, an upright shaft section carrled by the door and havlng a crank at1ts upper end journaled in-and connected with the third hanger, saidshaft section being movable up and down and adapted to be turned, alower upright shaft section carried by and movable about its axis on thedoor, a lever having a T-head interposed between and pivotally'connectedwith the shaft sections, and means for fastening the door;

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses. g

ELESEUS J. LEE.

Witnesses: I i

VERNE BENJAMIN, FREMONT BENJAMIN.

five cents each, by addressing thefiGommissioner of: Patents, 7Washington, I). C.

